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If you're interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen's Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc's Lupin and Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe.

If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I'd love to hear (especially interested in German, Dutch, Belgian, and Luxembourgish authors).

Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover.

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Rowand Atkinson recently did an amazing take on Maigret, three or four 2-hour episodes iirc. Some of his best dramatic work imho.

Wow that's cool! Will have to watch.

https://youtu.be/RVQs-DAjrL0

The trailer for "Night at the crossroads."

https://youtu.be/0QLxIBkewLw https://youtu.be/9atTVOzAGEw

Seconding this recommendation. Excellent stories and high quality acting. PBS runs them occasionally late at night.

I was very impressed with the camerawork too! The series is shot in Budapest BTW.

> Marcel Allain's Fantômas novels

By the way Jean Marais's movies while being not very related to the books are excellent in being very hilarious genre parodies.

The Pink Panther films are also hilarious parodies of this genre. Peter Sellers as inspector Jacques Clouseau is a blast

> Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover.

So the Martin Beck novels by Sjowall / Wahloo are probably on your radar then, for mystery fans that have not seen them they are worth reading.

Also Seishi Yokomizo is a Japanese mystery author that may appeal to Christie fans

Yep, I've read a bit of Martin Beck and Harry Hole.

Henning Mankell's Wallander books are just great. Made into a fantastic series starring Kenneth Branagh. I also enjoy Arnaldur Indridasson (Iceland) though many might find them a bit too slow and introspective.

A semi-comedic series is the French 'Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie' which are a re-telling of many of Agatha's mysteries. SBS Australia has it with English Subtitles. Each episode is about 90 minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Petits_Meurtres_d%27Agatha...

Recently I know of Kommissar Dupin by Jean-Luc Bannalec (pseudonym), Parot's Nicolas Le Floch, Frédéric Lenormand's Voltaire.

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